After a Dance

These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories Ive read in a long time. - Roddy Doyle, author of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

After a Dance is a collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget OConnor, with an exclusive preface from the authors daughter, Constance Straughan.

Bridget OConnor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday.

In After A Dance, we meet a selection of OConnors most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what hes lost, to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top.

From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful worst.

Think Irvine Welsh meets Edna O’Brien . . . pure, delicious naughty fun – The Times